Not feeling the online photo petitions? Is lobbying for not so bold legislation dragging you down? Don’t fret my friend, for action is the antidote to despair! Check out this admittedly incomplete list of direct action campaigns and events happening this summer.
Climate Ground Zero, West Virginia, All Summer 
Come to West Virginia to take direct action against mountaintop removal coal mining. CGZ will be coordinating action training camps and organizing actions against coal companies destroying the mountains and communities of WV. We will have non-violence and other trainings, a kitchen and people who can explain the corrupt practice of MTR. We are hoping to shut down the sites on an ongoing basis all summer long. But we need your help.
Contact Guin at 304-854-7372, guinstigator@yahoo.com
Cascadia Summer 2009
The Pacific Northwest is looking hot for direct action this summer with plans for massive public lands logging on the table. Thanks to a scheme called the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR) passed by Bush at the last minute around 25,000 acres of public lands will be cut. That’s a 436% percent increase in logging. Aside from the horrific impacts on the local ecosystem the logging would result in releasing 180 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere. The equivalent of putting one million cars on the road for 132 years.
Fortunately Oregonians are gearing up for a summer of resistance with several action camps and direct actions planned throughout the summer:
May 23-25 Cascadia Summer Campaign Action Camp
June 20-26 Trans and Womyns Action Camp
June 29-July 6 Earth First! Round River Rendezvous
July 8-July 15 EF! Climbers Guild Intensive Climb Camp
For more information contact forestdefensenow@gmail.com
www.forestdefensenow.org
Mountain Justice Summer 2009
Come to the coalfields of Appalachia to support communities resisting mountaintop removal coal mining. Activities include community service projects, field monitoring, water testing, listening projects and direct action.
www.mountainjusticesummer.org
West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice and Action
August 13-16 Richmond, CA (Bay Area)
A gathering of groups and individuals coming together to fight for climate justice. Come out for several days of workshops, trainings, and action. The Convergence will culminate in a mass action at Chevron’s Richmond Refinery on Aug. 17
www.climateconvergence.org
2009 Earth First Round River Rendezvous
June 29 – July 6 Oregon
Enjoy a week of backwoods camping with hundreds of other eco-rebels in the lush temperate rainforests of Oregon. There will be workshops, direct action trainings, tree sitting trainings, and partying around the campfire. Learn about biocentrism and deep ecology and the importance of defending our Mother Earth.
www.2009rrr.org
Black Mesa Indigenous Support
Ongoing, year-round
For decades traditional Dine (Navajo) and Hopi families have been resisting forced relocation from their traditional lands to make way for Peabody Coal’s massive strip mine. Black Mesa Indigenous Support connects volunteers with families who are still resisting relocation. Work includes herding sheep, chopping firewood, driving elders to important meetings and appointments and much more. This solidarity work greatly helps families to continue to defend their land and live a traditional lifestyle while enduring the hardships imposed by the US and Tribal governments and Peabody Coal.
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here’s the call to action that Climate Ground Zero is putting out, please note the contact details are slightly different.
please forward the call to action widely.
See you in the streets and the hills.
NATIONAL CALL TO JOIN A MOUNTAIN DEFENSE CAMP TO STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
This summer, join Climate Ground Zero at a Mountain Defense Camp in the Coal River Valley of southern West Virginia to stop mountaintop removal.
We’ve lobbied, we’ve marched, we’ve organized in our communities and we’ve taken direct action on a multitude of opportunities, but now we need to continue that struggle by establishing a sustained presence at the doorstep of one of the worst environmental atrocities in recent history.
Mountaintop removal is an obscene practice that literally blows the tops off of mountains to get at seams of coal. The resulting destruction is wrecking Appalachian eco-systems, waterways, communities and cultural traditions. Massey Energy and other coal companies dominate the physical and economic landscape of Appalachia, but a coalition of environmentalists, students, local communities and ordinary people from around the country have joined together to end the coal industries stranglehold on Appalachia.
This summer, we will work together to defeat Massey Energy and other so-called mining firms who blow up mountains rather than actually mine.
This summer, activists plan to shut down mountaintop removal sites on an ongoing basis. We plan to coordinate and carry out actions from May until August. But need your help. We need you and your affinity group to join us. If you don’t have an affinity group, come anyway and we’ll form them up as the summer progresses.
Non-violence training, camp space and other support will be provided. Please contact us if you’re interested in participating.
WHAT: Coal River Mountain Defense Camp
WHERE: Coal River Valley, West Virginia
WHEN: late May until August 31
CONTACT: climategroundzero@gmail.com; 304-854-7372
INFO: http://www.climategroundzero.org
Here is another exciting action opportunity this summer:
Avaaz.org CLIMATE ACTION FACTORIES
Summer 2009 Europe and Washington DC
For experiences climate activists to devise cutting edge – on the ground strategies to influence the international climate negotiations.
Avaaz will create action factories in strategic locations – to gather and deploy youth climate activists. Each location will house ~20 ‘Youth Climate Fellows’ working as a team. They will be supported with food, lodging, and modest monthly stipends, as well as a budget for climate activism. In exchange, they will commit to devoting their summer months to mobilizing stunts, media events, lobbying campaigns, and other actions. The work of these activists will maximize the possibility of achieving a strong and just global climate treaty at Copenhagen, and will raise the expectations and demands of the global public that governments must achieve such a treaty.
To be part of this project, fill out the application/registration ( http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhfmdp2v_9cxb28ngr ) form and return to climate@avaaz.org ASAP. Fellows will be accepted on a rolling basis so apply now. European Action Factory will begin June 18th. Washington DC Action Factory will begin the first week of June.
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions… climate@avaaz.org